Configuring Materials

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Materials(Introduction) In general, we buy materials and

services from vendors And we sell (some of) them to

customers

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Materials (Introduction) Remember that vendor records have

company (FI) and (MM) segments – Materials have many segments too Roughly speaking, these segments are

called views Some views are plant-specific. Others are

not Views across functional systems are

consistent (FI) (MM) (PP)

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Material Master Views Basic Data 1 Basic Data 2 Classification Sales: Sales Org Data 1 Sales: Sales Org Data 2 Sales: General/Plant Data Foreign Trade: Export Data Sales Text Purchasing MRP 1 MRP 2 MRP 3 MRP 4

• Forecasting• Work Scheduling

• General Plant Data/Storage 1• General Plant Data/Storage 2• Warehouse Management 1• Warehouse Management 2• Quality Management• Accounting 1• Accounting 2• Costing 1• Costing 2

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Material Master Views

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Material Master (Configuring) Using the IMG you must enable

materials management for each company code Define whether or not to allow

backposting (posting to the previous period)

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Material Master (Maintenance Status) The Material Master record contains a

“maintenance status” field indicating the user department / view

Table MARA field VPSTA

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Material Master (Organizational Units) A material belongs to an industry

sector Industry sectors have control functions

(screen sequence and field selection) The industry sector cannot be changed

after the material has been created SAP predefines selected industry sectors

Plant / Chemical / Mechanical engineering / Pharmaceutical / Retail / service provider

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Material Master (Organizational Units) A material has a type which controls

How the materials is procured (internal, external, both)

Valuation Material types have control functions too Whether the materials is configurable

(able to assign a variant class Material number assignment (internal /

external) Create custom types from existing types Procurement (internal / external)

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Material Master (Material Types) ROH:

Raw materials Externally purchased so no sales view

HALB: Semi-finished goods Not purchase or sales view because we

don’t make or sell FERT:

Finished goods Has sales view but no purchasing view

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Material Master Type (Configuring) From the IMG

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Material Master Type (Configuring) Select a

Material type

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Material Master Type (Configuring)

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Material Master (Organizational Units) A material belongs to a material group

Material groups are just classification units used to assign attributes to multiple materials in the same group

Use transaction code OMSF to create material groups

A material belongs to a division Divisions are used to determine sales

areas

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Units of Measure (1) A base unit of measure must be identified for each

material master Basically a label All data entered in Material Master (weight, cost, etc.) is

related to the base unit of measure Many standard units of measure are already defined in

the SAP R/3 system

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Units of Measure (2) Alternate units of measure can be defined for different

uses with the appropriate conversion factor (order unit )

Base unit of measure should be smallest unit of measure used anywhere in the system

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Units of Measure (Illustration)

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Units of Measure (Illustration)

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IAN EPC International Article Numbers (IAN) Universal Product Code

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Material Master (Configuration) You must set up company codes for

materials management (use IMG)

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Material Master Changes SAP records all changes to material

Immediate and future changes

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Purchasing Info Records Provides a link between a material

master record and a vendor master record

It provides default information for purchase orders

The tables are EINA - Purchase Info Record: General EINE - Purchasing info record: purchasing

organization data KONP - Condition Item KONH - Condition Header

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Purchasing Info Records (Contents) Current price and delivery costs for

purchasing organization or plant Number of last purchase order Purchase order price history Tolerance limits for over/under deliveries Planned delivery time for material Vendor evaluation data

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